President Francois Hollande visited France's aircraft carrier off the coast of Syria on Friday, while German lawmakers approved joining the intensifying fight against Islamic State jihadists. Three weeks to the day since IS gunmen caused carnage in Paris, Hollande was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Russian air strikes on the central town of Talbiseh in Homs province, activists said Friday. Medics of Talbiseh main hospital said the initial death toll of Russian missile attacks was 11 people, including 4...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians have killed and 10 wounded, mostly drivers, in Russian missile attacks on a fuel convoy in rebel-held town near the Turkish border, local reporter said. Russia's air strikes have renewed on the town of kafr Naseh in the northern countryside of Aleppo province,...

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday it might be possible for the Syrian government and rebel forces to cooperate against militants without Syrian President Bashar Assad having first left power. However, Kerry said it would be "exceedingly difficult" to achieve this if...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The key Syrian opposition group, the National Coalition, has submitted Saudi Arabia the final list of its representatives supposed to attend Riyadh conference in mid December. The Saudi-sponsored conference meant to unify as many Syrian political and armed opposition factions...

Germany's Parliament has approved plans to provide military assistance in the fight against Islamic State militants, including reconnaissance jets and up to 1,200 support personnel. Lawmakers voted Friday 445 to 146 to approve the plan crafted by Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet this week...

A Molotov cocktail hurled at a Cairo restaurant killed 12 people and wounded six on Friday, Egyptian security officials said. One of the officials said the attacker was an employee who had been fired from the restaurant in the Agouza area in the center of the Egyptian capital....

Reporting by Abdulhafiz al Jolani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Arsal - (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese army backed with Shiite Hezbollah militia have renewed ground and missile attacks on border territory controlled by Nusra Front, hours after the al-Qaeda branch in Syria had delivered 16 army...

Ten Syrians linked to ISIS entered Thailand in October to attack Russian interests, Thai police said in a leaked document citing information from the Russian Federal Security Service. In the document, Special Branch police urged an intensification of security around "target areas that Russian...

Two months have passed since the beginning of what some are calling a new Palestinian “Intifada” (uprising) in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, a series of events that have left at least 109 Palestinians dead and thousands injured. The dead include 24 minors and five women....

The Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) on Thursday denied recent claims by the Russian Defense Ministry that the Daesh militant group was selling oil to Turkey. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, KRG spokesman Safeen Dizayi dismissed Russian allegations that Daesh was selling oil to Turkey...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front rebels have launched a new battle to take a strategic regime-held town in Daraa province, activists said Thursday. Taking the town of Jediya is very vital for rebels if it happens that enable them to cut an army supply route between Daraa and Damascus as weel...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday expressed Ankara's condolences to Russia for the death of a Russian pilot when one of its warplanes was shot down by Turkey on the Syrian border last week. "We expressed our sadness and expressed our condolences for the Russian pilot who...

(Zaman Al Wasl) - Our readers can download the newly nominal list of 23,ooo Syrian officers and soldiers who have defected army since revolution erupted in March 2011. Also, you can download the reservists list of  Syrian regime military that contains names of about 55,000 people...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strongly denounced Russia for dragging the name of his family members into allegations of illegal oil dealings with the terrorist organization Daesh. "Dragging my family into this issue is the unethical side of the incident; earlier, Iranian...

Egypt has reopened its border with the Gaza Strip in both directions for the first time in months. Thousands of Palestinians are lining up Thursday at the Rafah crossing in hopes of leaving the isolated enclave. Gaza's borders are largely sealed by an Israeli and Egyptian blockade. It's...

 British Tornado jets struck oil fields in eastern Syria on Thursday that help finance the Islamic State group and Germany prepared to send reconnaissance aircraft to the Middle East as coalition forces stepped up efforts to fight the militants. The strikes at the Omar oil field came only...

A conference that was meant to take place in Vienna grouping Syria’s warring sides will instead take place in New York on Dec. 18, sources told Al Arabiya’s sister channel al-Hadath on Wednesday. Before the meeting in the U.S. city, moderate Syrian opposition leaders will be meeting the Saudi...

Russia has started the delivery of its S-300 air defense systems to Iran, TASS news agency quoted an aide to President Vladimir Putin as saying on Thursday. "The contract is being implemented, (deliveries of S-300s) are starting," the agency quoted Vladimir Kozhin as saying.  

The United States warned on Thursday of the need to find Syrian or Arab ground forces to take on Islamic State, saying the militant group would not be defeated by air strikes alone. "I think we know that without the ability to find some ground forces that are prepared to take on...